Start with the sound of cheerful laughter, add a female sibling of your parent, and you get what ghosts love to do to an old abandoned house. What is this word?
Haunt
The sound of cheerful laughter is written as 'ha,' while a female sibling of your mother or father is your 'aunt.' When you blend 'ha' and 'aunt' together, you form 'haunt,' which describes how a spook visits an old mansion.
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